• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    1 month ago

    100 troops is not enough to invade Iran, you silly armchair-general fucks commenting here.

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      1 month ago

      Not the point.

      What happens when Iran manages to kill an American soldier a week before the election?

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      1 month ago

      No, but 100 dead troops is enough to grandstand about to get enough outrage to justify an all-out war in the region.

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        1 month ago

        Unless the US military is stupid to keep all 100 of them in a single easily bombable location, there’s no fucking way on this green earth a single one of them will die in any combat, especially if they are simply manning air defense outposts spread across the country like what the article that no one here reads actually said.

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          1 month ago

          Fun fact, Air Defense is a priority target in missile saturation attacks because it makes it easier for follow on missiles to hit their targets.

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      1 month ago

      So why did he send them? To help with tel aviv mcdonalds understaffing issue?

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        1 month ago

        Anti missile and aircraft systems are obviously the #1 targets in any attack. And the Israelis gain much more by letting them get hit than by making sure those units are protected in any way. They might even secretly shoot at them themselves to speed things up. I would not want to be one of those THAAD operators.